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Playwright Deborah Zoe Laufer and director Liesl Tommy want to assure you that science can be fun. In pursuit of the noble...
As far as I know, the most chillingly romantic scene in American dramatic literature occurs in the second half...
Those of us who watched the actress Madeline Kahn (1942-1999) as she slipped into prominence--with...
Kerr focuses on Unity, a small Saskatchewan town, during the unhappy year when the world-wide-epidemic threatened at the same time as World War I soldiers damaged by mustard gas began to ret…
There's a reliable rule of the stage according to which, if the actors are having fun, the audience absolutely will. That's what's rambunctiously going on throughout Daniel Sullivan's fooli…
I traveled far and wide and low and high to find the greatest marketing executive to ever walk the earth. No, I won't tell you the person's name.
It's a slick little thriller, is Christopher Stetson Boal's Pimm's Mission, directed snugly by Terrence O'Brien...
Daveed Diggs, Okieriete Onaodowan, Anthony Ramos and Lin Manuel Miranda
in Hamilton. Photo: Joan Marcus
"I am...
This past week, I spent some time in the beautiful city of Denver, Colorado enjoying the Major League Soccer All-Star Game and supporting festivities. I've worked with the League in a range …
From 1927 to 1931, six major Broadway composers were born: (in order of appearance) John Kander,...
"Theater today is ridiculously inaccessible as it is, and to tell people they have to dress a certain way to participate is unfair."
The live performance part occurred July 29 at Joe's Pub, where Nora York--who's appeared at the venue every three or four months for several years as well as at any number of other prestigio…
Today I crossed paths with a deadbeat. No, it's not the first time. Or the last. But it always surprises me when it happens. I have a pretty positive outlook on life, so it stings when I run…
James Lecesne in The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey.
Photo: Matthew Murphy
The Absolute Brightness of...
Though the abrupt changes of tone are initially jarring, it doesn't take long for the audience to understand that the ensuing transitions from a subdued dinner party to the frenetic behavior…
There's a fantasy I have about stand-up comics and a shrine they keep somewhere in their homes. On it are little stereotype...
The treatment of women as second-class members of humanity, no matter what their accomplishments, is occupying the thoughts of the Potomac Theatre Project, again in residence this summer at …
We now have another Awake and Sing!, this time at the Public. But there is a major difference. This is a production of the National Asian American Theatre Company (NAATCO). The cast consists…
Amy Schumer's Trainwreck introduces us to a new kind of mainstream film heroine: blunt, thoughtless, more interested in being gratified than likable, one whose boundless appetites are played…
Sure enough, by the time the first act finished, I was much more impressed with the adaptation of Joseph Moncure March's engagingly dark Jazz-Age poem than I'd been the first time around -- …
The authors and producers seem to be very much in earnest in this anti-slavery, pro-faith tale of the mid-18th century. They provide something of a history lesson, based on the life, adventu…
I met Donna Lynne Champlin in 2002 and I've seen basically everything she has done in New York since, which means I have...
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Hynes had to be fully aware that fitting four plays that usually run close to three hours each into a five-hour-35-minute playing time meant that much of the Bard's excised dialogue would be…
Penn Jillette and Teller in Penn & Teller On Broadway. Photo: Francis George
Penn Jillette and the mononymous Teller...
